Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich held a series of meetings with top executives of Australia’s universities in Melbourne. At the meeting in Monash University. Photo: Sk.ru The negotiations were held at three universities...
Skolkovo resident cybercrime company Group-IB has joined forces with Russia’s police academy to train police officers in the field of cybersecurity. Group-IB CEO Ilya Sachkov (left) shakes hands on the agreement with Andrei Konev, head of the Interior...
The fifth Pharma’s Cool educational programme for students and young entrepreneurs began on Monday at the Skolkovo Technopark. Organised by the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster and Open University Skolkovo (OPUS), Pharma’s Cool aims...
Skolkovo International Gymnasium has successfully completed the International Baccalaureate authorization process for its Middle Years Programme (MYP) for pupils aged 11-16. The Skolkovo Gymnasium already has IB authorization for its Diploma Programme for...
Sputnix , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes hi-tech microsatellite components and services, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Far Eastern Federal University ( FEFA ) on educational scientific work to create and operate small...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the multinational pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca to carry out joint scientific research and educational activities in Russia. Irina Panarina, director of AstraZeneca Russia and...
Skolkovo resident startup GeoSteering Technologies , the maker of “smart drilling” software for use at oil and gas production facilities, signed an agreement with the government of the Tyumen region at the Sochi 2017 Russian Investment Forum this...
Bridging the gap between academia and industry to turn the ideas of the country’s brightest minds into successful commercial projects is one of the challenges struggled with by innovations institutions all over the world. To find out more about the Dutch...
Dnevnik.ru , an educational social network made by a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, is among the winners of the EdTechXGlobal All Stars Rise 20 awards for education technology. The winners of the EdTechXEurope All Stars Awards...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) is holding an Open Doors Day on Saturday, April 23 for anyone interested in attending lectures by Skoltech professors, talking to current students and finding out more about the university’s...
Alexander Kuleshov, the new president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), officially took over from the four-year-old research university’s founding president, U.S. professor Edward Crawley, last month. In an interview with...
Edward Crawley, the charismatic U.S. professor who has headed the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) since its founding, on Friday officially handed over his duties as president to his Russian successor, Dr. Alexander Kuleshov. Edward...
If children throughout the 20 th century delightedly developed their engineering skills by playing with Meccano, a Russian startup hopes that 21 st -century children will find its robotic constructor kits no less fascinating – and educational. Roman...
What child wouldn’t like to meet a robot, or a professor of astronautics? These were two of the recent visitors to the Skolkovo International Gymnasium , a private school attached to the Skolkovo innovation hub. But the purpose of such visits to the...
The US Ambassador to Russia, John F. Tefft, has signaled his country’s continuing support for the Skolkovo project, noting in a speech at Startup Village that the relationship will not be imperiled by political tensions. US Ambassador to Russia...
Hundreds of Moscow students packed out a lecture theater this week to hear what most of them already believe: Pharma’s Cool. The lecture hall at Moscow’s Sechenov University of Medicine. Photo: sk.ru The three-week lecture series targeting...
In building the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, it would be an “extraordinary waste of energy” to simply create another MIT, the president of the fledgling Russian innovations university, Ed Crawley, has said in televised remarks....
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is publishing a database of its students’ startup businesses online to promote transparency and boost exposure. The Skoltech Projects website. Photo: projects.skoltech.ru The “Skoltech...
Adaptive toys for rehabilitation and a robotic assistant surgeon were among 13 winning innovations at the first stage of the Russian Startup Tour in Rostov-on-Don. More than 100 projects from the southern city and surrounding region competed for a place...
Sergei Krikalev, the man who has spent the most time in space at 803 days, has joined the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology as a professor of practice. Krikalev giving a talk at Skoltech as a guest in September. Photo: sk.ru Krikalev...
A prominent US diplomat said Monday that Skolkovo’s partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is more important now than ever. In opening remarks at the US-Russia Research Symposium in the Russian capital, Jeffrey Sexton, minister...
Skolkovo has teamed up with Tel Aviv University to research projects of common interest, expanding the Foundation’s reach in the academic world. Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg signed a memorandum of understanding this week with Prof...
A delegation of scientists, educators and ministry officials from India paid a visit Wednesday to the Skolkovo Foundation, on a fact-finding mission to study the opportunities available for Indian students and startups in Russia. Led by Inder Jit Singh of...
The screen lights up with a blissfully happy face of a three-year old girl who has just managed to build a molecule model from colored sticks. British scientist Harold Walter Kroto and his two colleagues received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery...